T Bartley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 17035 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T Bartley |
| NOMBRES | T |
| APELLIDO | Bartley |
| FIRMA | BARTLEY T |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0049-0607 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 799 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Do promises of support from distant buyers bolster or undermine local demands for reform? Evidence from the Indonesian apparel industry during the pandemic
Calls to improve labor conditions in global supply chains frequently urge more robust responsibility-taking by brands/buyers, various forms of state intervention, and respect for worker collective action. In this article, we examine perceptions of these paths to reform among workers and managers in Indonesia's export-oriented apparel sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Extending research on labor regimes and global supply chains, we consider how…
Smart‐Mix or Stupid Assurances? How Businesses Used Voluntary Initiatives to (De)Legitimize Supply Chain Regulation
Mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) policies seem to represent a pathbreaking shift from voluntary measures to binding rules for global supply chains. Yet these policies endorse a “smart‐mix” of voluntary and mandatory measures, and risk over‐reliance on questionable private‐sector assurances. In this paper, we ask how businesses framed these private/voluntary efforts in the face of looming regulation, focusing on the E…
Moralized global markets and contested fields
How do people judge the moral boundaries of markets? While scholars have mostly addressed this question in local/national contexts, we ask about perceptions of environmental, labor, and human rights abuses in global supply chains. Extending theories of moralized markets as contested fields, we develop a framework centered on competing claims of corporations and NGOs. Using a conjoint survey experiment in Germany, we examine the conditions under w…
Tackling toxins
As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generis and have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make industrial operations greener. In this paper, we consider what can be learned from other shifts away from polluting substances. Drawing on literatures on corporate regulatory strategies and evolving regulatory interactions, we argue for a focus on configurations of regulatory scrutiny a…
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention
Collective perceptions of harm and impropriety channel the evolution of capitalism, as shown by research on the moral boundaries of markets. But how are boundaries perceived when harms are distant and observers face competing claims from advocacy organizations and corporations? These conditions are particularly salient in global supply chains, where private voluntary initiatives have been formed to address labor exploitation and environmental deg…
Power and the Practice of Transnational Private Regulation
Corporations, NGOs, and private regulatory initiatives have taken on functions once assumed to be the domain of the state and inter-governmental organisations. While researchers are racing to assess the impacts of private rules, theoretical statements remain focused on the design, legitimation, and intermediation of private initiatives or the hegemony of neoliberal governance. This paper instead highlights the grounded practices of transnational …
Shaohua Zhan, The Land Question in China
Power at a distance
Organizational approaches can help to make sense of social phenomena, including inequality, politics, and culture. This is partly because large organizations exercise great power, both over employees and in their external environments. Revising Charles Perrow's classic account of the “society of organizations” in the 20th century, we argue that the organizational landscape has changed. There has been a dis‐embedding of individuals from organizati…
Green Grades
What can be learned from examining hundreds of eco-labels and environmental ratings? Quite a lot, it turns out, though probably not enough to answer the question in this book’s subtitle. Green Grades provides an “information realist” account of environmental claims about products and companies, with a particular emphasis on how these square with the values of conscientious consumers and citizens. As a scholar of environmental policy and co-founde…
Dirty Gold
The Digital Surveillance Society
Rules without Rights
Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and sustainability. This book is about the idea that transnational corporations can push these rules through their global supply chains, and in effect, pull factories, forests, and farms out of their local contexts and up to global best practices. For many scholars…
Comment les fondations façonnent les mouvements sociaux
Les chercheurs travaillant sur les mouvements sociaux ont montré que le soutien des fondations contribue à détourner ces mouvements de leurs activités radicales au profit d'objectifs plus modérés ; mais les études éclairant le déroulement de ce processus sont sous-représentées. Les recherches existantes se focalisent généralement sur deux aspects : d'une part les choix opérés par les fondations au moment d'attribuer des financements - à savoir la…
Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Scholars and critics often lament that corporations rule the world, but predominant accounts of global governance imply almost the opposite: With theories populated by national governments and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, it might appear that nearly everyone except corporations writes the rules that govern across borders. This article compiles research on the varied ways in which multinational and transnational corporation…
The Architecture of Collapse
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, several sociologists turned to Charles Perrow’s theory of normal accidents to explain why the mortgage meltdown so quickly cascaded into a systemic crisis. Perrow had argued that technological systems are prone to uncontrollable crises when they are highly complex (with lots of opaque and non-linear relationships) and tightly coupled (with few buffers between components). Mauro Guillen and Sandra S…
Social Movement Organizations
Social movements organize people, resources, and ideas for social change. Many do this through formal organizations, and most sociologists recognize the social movement organization (SMO) as a key factor in the study of movements. SMOs can be defined as formal organizations that take the collective pursuit of social change as a primary goal. This concept is trickier than it may initially seem, since it relies on two concepts that are themselves d…
Beyond decoupling
Scholars often rely on static and distant images of ‘decoupling’ to describe the limited influence of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), among other organizational and global scripts. New insights can be gained by looking closely at how local advocates seek to leverage symbolic commitments. Leveraging can be a route to what we call ‘contingent coupling’, a circumstantial shrinking of the gap between legitimating symbols and concrete conditi…
Looking behind the Label
Read an excerpt from the book Connect: Tim Bartley's website Framing the Global website Global Studies on Facebook
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine …
Governing global production
Responsibility and neglect in global production networks
In response to anti-sweatshop activism, lead firms in global production networks (GPNs) have adopted voluntary corporate social responsibility commitments such as codes of conduct. Scholars have begun to examine whether and how these shape labour conditions at the point of production, but existing research either focuses on a small number of cases or lacks a control group of factories that are not exposed to codes of conduct. In addition, scholar…
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
Certification as a Mode of Social Regulation
This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory state and regulatory capitalism, and in the context of the ‘golden age of regulation’. Its eleven sections include forty-eight chapters covering issues as diverse and varied as: theories of regulation; historical p…
Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules
The implementation of transnational standards — in codes of conduct, certification, and monitoring initiatives — necessarily intertwines with domestic law and other types of rules. Yet much of the existing literature overlooks or obscures this fundamental point. Indeed, scholars often err either by treating private regulatory standards as transcendent or by viewing implementation as fundamentally a technical problem. This Article argues that unde…
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization
Why have systems of “transnational private regulation ” recently emerged to certify corporate social and environmental performance? Different conceptions of institutional emergence underlie different answers to this question. Many scholars argue that firms create certification systems to solve problems in the market—a view rooted in a conception of institutions as solutions to collective action problems. The author develops a different account by…
Certifying Forests and Factories
Systems of private regulation based on certification have recently emerged to address environmental issues in the forest products industry and labor issues in the apparel industry. To explain why the same regulatory form has emerged across these fields, the author uses a historical and comparative case study approach, closely examining early moments and paying attention to 'roads not taken.' Two types of factors led to the initial emergence of pr…
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
How Foundations Shape Social Movements
Social movement scholars have demonstrated that foundation patronage channels social movements away from radical activities toward moderate goals, but accounts of how this process occurs are underdeveloped. Existing research typically focuses on foundations' differential selection of grant recipients (i.e., “cherry-picking” nonthreatening groups) and transformation of particular recipient organizations over time (i.e., professionalizing grassroot…
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior
Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom, globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules and agents. We survey efforts to address this paradox. Building on analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century regulation, research on the current period has produced two critical analytical advances. It has developed new, multilevel conceptions of globalization,…
Regulating American Industries
This article assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neoinstitutional research. State‐level event history analyses of fire insurance rate regulation from 1906 to 1930 are used. Contrary to capture theory, regulation was not driven simply by firms’ interests in market control. Instead, consistent with interest group analyses, regulation was more likely when anticompany forces—farmers and small bu…
Movements, Markets and Fields
How do social movements influence corporations? Recent work suggests that movements can inflict material damage on their targets and shape categories of evaluation in organizational fields. Extending these ideas, we examine the effects of anti-sweatshop campaigns on sales, stock performance, reputation and specialized ratings of U.S. firms, using fixed-effects regression models and event study methods. The analysis demonstrates that social moveme…
Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Scholars and critics often lament that corporations rule the world, but predominant accounts of global governance imply almost the opposite: With theories populated by national governments and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, it might appear that nearly everyone except corporations writes the rules that govern across borders. This article compiles research on the varied ways in which multinational and transnational corporation…
Beyond decoupling
Scholars often rely on static and distant images of ‘decoupling’ to describe the limited influence of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), among other organizational and global scripts. New insights can be gained by looking closely at how local advocates seek to leverage symbolic commitments. Leveraging can be a route to what we call ‘contingent coupling’, a circumstantial shrinking of the gap between legitimating symbols and concrete conditi…
Power and the Practice of Transnational Private Regulation
Corporations, NGOs, and private regulatory initiatives have taken on functions once assumed to be the domain of the state and inter-governmental organisations. While researchers are racing to assess the impacts of private rules, theoretical statements remain focused on the design, legitimation, and intermediation of private initiatives or the hegemony of neoliberal governance. This paper instead highlights the grounded practices of transnational …
The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance
Governments are increasingly devolving governance of natural resources from central administrations to subnational levels. Researchers routinely document the complexity and contradictions of this process, but policy prescriptions and their underlying theoretical models remain overly simplified. Going beyond classical statements in the policy literature that emphasize interjurisdictional competition, we draw on recent developments in the multidisc…
Social Movement Organizations
Social movements organize people, resources, and ideas for social change. Many do this through formal organizations, and most sociologists recognize the social movement organization (SMO) as a key factor in the study of movements. SMOs can be defined as formal organizations that take the collective pursuit of social change as a primary goal. This concept is trickier than it may initially seem, since it relies on two concepts that are themselves d…
Responsibility and neglect in global production networks
In response to anti-sweatshop activism, lead firms in global production networks (GPNs) have adopted voluntary corporate social responsibility commitments such as codes of conduct. Scholars have begun to examine whether and how these shape labour conditions at the point of production, but existing research either focuses on a small number of cases or lacks a control group of factories that are not exposed to codes of conduct. In addition, scholar…
Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention
Collective perceptions of harm and impropriety channel the evolution of capitalism, as shown by research on the moral boundaries of markets. But how are boundaries perceived when harms are distant and observers face competing claims from advocacy organizations and corporations? These conditions are particularly salient in global supply chains, where private voluntary initiatives have been formed to address labor exploitation and environmental deg…
Insurance as Governance
The Wages of Day Labor
This paper develops two theoretical perspectives on the distribution of wages in formal day labor markets–an economic view of day labor as an undifferentiated "spot market," and an organizational view that emphasizes "market-making" organizations. We assess the utility of these theories with original survey data on homeless men in the formal day labor industry in Tucson, Arizona, utilizing hierarchical linear models. Consistent with the spot mark…
Rationality and Institutional Contingency
Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S. states' passage of fire insurance regulation from 1…
Power at a distance
Organizational approaches can help to make sense of social phenomena, including inequality, politics, and culture. This is partly because large organizations exercise great power, both over employees and in their external environments. Revising Charles Perrow's classic account of the “society of organizations” in the 20th century, we argue that the organizational landscape has changed. There has been a dis‐embedding of individuals from organizati…
World-system Studies of the Environment
The world-system idea has been used to explain a great deal about national institutional life, from rates of economic growth to changing patterns of schooling. One of the newer areas of interest is the environment. In the following review we examine scholarship that deals with environmental problems from a distinctly world systemic perspective
Comment les fondations façonnent les mouvements sociaux
Les chercheurs travaillant sur les mouvements sociaux ont montré que le soutien des fondations contribue à détourner ces mouvements de leurs activités radicales au profit d'objectifs plus modérés ; mais les études éclairant le déroulement de ce processus sont sous-représentées. Les recherches existantes se focalisent généralement sur deux aspects : d'une part les choix opérés par les fondations au moment d'attribuer des financements - à savoir la…
The Digital Surveillance Society
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
World-system Studies of the Environment
The world-system idea has been used to explain a great deal about national institutional life, from rates of economic growth to changing patterns of schooling. One of the newer areas of interest is the environment. In the following review we examine scholarship that deals with environmental problems from a distinctly world systemic perspective
Regulating American Industries
This article assesses three approaches to state regulation: capture theory, interest group analyses, and neoinstitutional research. State‐level event history analyses of fire insurance rate regulation from 1906 to 1930 are used. Contrary to capture theory, regulation was not driven simply by firms’ interests in market control. Instead, consistent with interest group analyses, regulation was more likely when anticompany forces—farmers and small bu…
Rationality and Institutional Contingency
Are the politics of economic regulation contingent on institutions? Drawing on arguments about institutional mediation and the institutional bases of rational action, we explore how institutions shape the dynamics invoked in two theories of regulation. We argue that institutional arrangements affect both the clarity and the content of group interests in regulation. Event history analyses of U.S. states' passage of fire insurance regulation from 1…
Certifying Forests and Factories
Systems of private regulation based on certification have recently emerged to address environmental issues in the forest products industry and labor issues in the apparel industry. To explain why the same regulatory form has emerged across these fields, the author uses a historical and comparative case study approach, closely examining early moments and paying attention to 'roads not taken.' Two types of factors led to the initial emergence of pr…
The Wages of Day Labor
This paper develops two theoretical perspectives on the distribution of wages in formal day labor markets–an economic view of day labor as an undifferentiated "spot market," and an organizational view that emphasizes "market-making" organizations. We assess the utility of these theories with original survey data on homeless men in the formal day labor industry in Tucson, Arizona, utilizing hierarchical linear models. Consistent with the spot mark…
Insurance as Governance
Industrial Relations, Politics, and Government
How Foundations Shape Social Movements
Social movement scholars have demonstrated that foundation patronage channels social movements away from radical activities toward moderate goals, but accounts of how this process occurs are underdeveloped. Existing research typically focuses on foundations' differential selection of grant recipients (i.e., “cherry-picking” nonthreatening groups) and transformation of particular recipient organizations over time (i.e., professionalizing grassroot…
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization
Why have systems of “transnational private regulation ” recently emerged to certify corporate social and environmental performance? Different conceptions of institutional emergence underlie different answers to this question. Many scholars argue that firms create certification systems to solve problems in the market—a view rooted in a conception of institutions as solutions to collective action problems. The author develops a different account by…
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior
Current scholarship suggests that instead of fueling deregulation and a race to the bottom, globalization and neoliberalism often go hand in hand with the expansion of regulatory rules and agents. We survey efforts to address this paradox. Building on analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century regulation, research on the current period has produced two critical analytical advances. It has developed new, multilevel conceptions of globalization,…
The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance
Governments are increasingly devolving governance of natural resources from central administrations to subnational levels. Researchers routinely document the complexity and contradictions of this process, but policy prescriptions and their underlying theoretical models remain overly simplified. Going beyond classical statements in the policy literature that emphasize interjurisdictional competition, we draw on recent developments in the multidisc…
Certification as a Mode of Social Regulation
This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory state and regulatory capitalism, and in the context of the ‘golden age of regulation’. Its eleven sections include forty-eight chapters covering issues as diverse and varied as: theories of regulation; historical p…
Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules
The implementation of transnational standards — in codes of conduct, certification, and monitoring initiatives — necessarily intertwines with domestic law and other types of rules. Yet much of the existing literature overlooks or obscures this fundamental point. Indeed, scholars often err either by treating private regulatory standards as transcendent or by viewing implementation as fundamentally a technical problem. This Article argues that unde…
Movements, Markets and Fields
How do social movements influence corporations? Recent work suggests that movements can inflict material damage on their targets and shape categories of evaluation in organizational fields. Extending these ideas, we examine the effects of anti-sweatshop campaigns on sales, stock performance, reputation and specialized ratings of U.S. firms, using fixed-effects regression models and event study methods. The analysis demonstrates that social moveme…
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
Shaming the Corporation
As social movements co-evolve with changes in states and markets, it is crucial to examine how they make particular kinds of actors into focal points for the expression of grievances and the demand for rights. But researchers often bracket the question of why some kinds of organizations are more likely than others to become targets of social movement pressure. We theorize the "social production of targets" by social movements, rejecting a simple …
Looking behind the Label
Read an excerpt from the book Connect: Tim Bartley's website Framing the Global website Global Studies on Facebook
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine …
Governing global production
Responsibility and neglect in global production networks
In response to anti-sweatshop activism, lead firms in global production networks (GPNs) have adopted voluntary corporate social responsibility commitments such as codes of conduct. Scholars have begun to examine whether and how these shape labour conditions at the point of production, but existing research either focuses on a small number of cases or lacks a control group of factories that are not exposed to codes of conduct. In addition, scholar…
Beyond decoupling
Scholars often rely on static and distant images of ‘decoupling’ to describe the limited influence of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), among other organizational and global scripts. New insights can be gained by looking closely at how local advocates seek to leverage symbolic commitments. Leveraging can be a route to what we call ‘contingent coupling’, a circumstantial shrinking of the gap between legitimating symbols and concrete conditi…
Social Movement Organizations
Social movements organize people, resources, and ideas for social change. Many do this through formal organizations, and most sociologists recognize the social movement organization (SMO) as a key factor in the study of movements. SMOs can be defined as formal organizations that take the collective pursuit of social change as a primary goal. This concept is trickier than it may initially seem, since it relies on two concepts that are themselves d…
Rules without Rights
Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and sustainability. This book is about the idea that transnational corporations can push these rules through their global supply chains, and in effect, pull factories, forests, and farms out of their local contexts and up to global best practices. For many scholars…
Comment les fondations façonnent les mouvements sociaux
Les chercheurs travaillant sur les mouvements sociaux ont montré que le soutien des fondations contribue à détourner ces mouvements de leurs activités radicales au profit d'objectifs plus modérés ; mais les études éclairant le déroulement de ce processus sont sous-représentées. Les recherches existantes se focalisent généralement sur deux aspects : d'une part les choix opérés par les fondations au moment d'attribuer des financements - à savoir la…
Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Scholars and critics often lament that corporations rule the world, but predominant accounts of global governance imply almost the opposite: With theories populated by national governments and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, it might appear that nearly everyone except corporations writes the rules that govern across borders. This article compiles research on the varied ways in which multinational and transnational corporation…
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